A culture shock is going to be hitting downtown State College over the next few days.

The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., will be playing a series of foreign films tomorrow afternoon through Friday night.

With a 31-foot screen, the Theatre allows students and locals to view cultural films on the largest screen in the downtown State College area.

"You have to actually see the screen," said Kristy Cyone, the sales and marketing manager. "The impact of that is totally different."

The Theatre is trying to play more foreign and older films that students would most likely not have seen already.

The Christopher Quinn documentary, God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan, will be playing at the Theatre today and tomorrow at 4, 7 and 9:30 p.m., and the Oscar-winning Motorcycle Diaries will be playing on Friday also at 4, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

God Grew Tired of Us follows three Sudanese refugees in their journey to escape their third-world country to live the American dream.

The main characters experience all of the ups and downs of moving from war-torn Sudan to the developed world of the U.S.

The Motorcycle Diaries is a movie based on the memoirs of Che Guevara, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, and a motorcycle road trip he went on in the early 1950s across South America that showed him his life's calling.

"I am from Latino America so it would be interesting to go see Motorcycle Diaries at the Theatre," Melissa Ramirez (junior-petroleum engineering) said.

Tickets for both movies are $7 each.

Although it is not in his current budget, Mark Pears (senior-industrial engineering) said he would not be opposed to paying $7 to view a foreign film.

"For $7 I wouldn't pay that much to see a regular movie, but at a theatre with a unique ambiance it probably would be worth it," he said.

Cyone describes events held in the theatre as intimate and comfortable and hopes that more students will check out films and performances going on at the newly constructed venue.

"Being in the Theatre, you really feel like you escape State College for a minute," she said.